Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-17
CONFEDERATE FLAGS.
The Governors Of Several States at
the Instance Of the G. A. R. Pro-
test Against Their Return.
Acknowledgement Drum Says the Idea
Originated With the Administration
During the Late Drill.
The President after Consulting the Law
Orders the Secretary of War to Hold
the Flags and Relics.
4 pRoTEsT FRoN1 kANsAs-


/ TOPEKA, KAN, June IC.-Nucb indie
nation is expressed here over the return
of the Confederate flags to their respec-
tive states. A large number of Grand
Army of the republic men called upon
Governor Martin to-day, who at noon
sent the following telegram to President
| Cleveland:
| In the name of 100, OCO citizens of Kansss who
/ served In the ranks of the Union army during
the war, and In behalf of all the people of this
state, enter an indignant protest against the
return OF toe Confederate flags captured in the
| battles by the soldiers of the republic ! pro
Jest against such action as an insult to the
heroic dead and an outrage on their surviving
comrades. The government accepted the ems
to1y of the flags placed In It's charge by patri-
| otic soldiers of the Union as q sacred rrusr
and protest that the President of the I nited
states OF any other officer OF the government
/ hes authority, moral or legal, to surrender
| them signed. JOHN a. MARTIS.
| Governor of Kansas.
THE PROTEST FROM OHIO.
| COLUMBUS, OHIO, June IS Governor
Foraker 10 day received telegram from
d G. Putnam of Springfield, department
commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic of Ohio, urging him in behalf
of the $1,000 comrades of this
department to protest to the authorities
at Washington against giving up the
rebel flags captured by the soldiers Of
Ohio. The Governor forwarded the tele-
gram to President Cleveland and in the
same conjunction said:
"ln transmitting the message | desire
TO comply with its request and do most
earnestly protest against the action 10
which it relates. The patriotic people of
this stste are shocked and indignant be
You'd anything l can express | earnestly
request you TO revoke the order that has
given such unqualified ofense."
The Governor also sent a telegram 20
General BoYntOn at Washington asking
MIN to take legal advice and institute
proceedings to eDj1in the return Of the
rebel flags which were captured by ONO
troops.
PROTESTS FROM ILLINOIS.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June IG-Repre-
sentstiVes of about thirty Grand Army of
the Republic posts of Illinois met at the
statehouse and adopted resolutions pro
testing III vigorous language against the
return of the captured Confederate flags
to the original pcssessors as contempa-
ted il an order recently announced by the
war Department Of the United States,
ana asking Governor Oglesby to teIe-
1
protesting against il, and TO take such
acton as may be necessary to preserve
and to protect for Illinois soldiers the
nags and trophies captured by them in
the war.
WISCoNSIN'S GOVERNOR PROTESTS.
MADISON, Wis, June Ex-Governor
Rusk, who is greatly reused by the
determination of the administration 10
return the rebel flags to the original
southern companies from which thew
were taken, has sent letter to Adiutant-
General Drum requesting that the flags
by Wisconsin troops in the late
war be returned to the state Governor
Rusk has also wired & protest to Presi-
dent Cleveland against the return OF the
Tags. The Grand Army posts in Wisaon-
;in will hold meetings to protest against
he action of the War Department.
FAIRCHILD AND SHERMAN CLOsETED.
NEW YORK, June lG.-Mail and Ex-
press prints the following: General
1ucius Fairchild had a long talk with
General W. T. Sherman this morning at
he Fifth Avenue hotel. IL is understood
hat General Sherman approves of General
'airchild's speech last evening. He says
II the march to the sea it was more ami
mated than usual, and that he conversed
With an earnestness out of general keep
ne with mis- usual humorous style He re
used to see any reporters on the ground
nat he was about to leave for New
iaYen. General Fairchild, as soon as
ne conference was over, came down into
ne corridor looking a little Daler than
sual. a reporter asked about his con-
erence with General Sherman, but he de-
lined 10 say what the nature of it wss.
WHAT PROMINENT POLITICIAN SAYS.
WASHINGTON, June "a dispatch
ON this city to the Baltimore Sun OF
lis morning quotes gentleman of prom
lence IN political circles, probably Sec
etary Bayard, as saying: The order IS
ne Of the Oravest, wisest and most pa
lotto actions ever performed by the ex-
;utive of a great people By stroke
his pen the President has done more
unite the stats aud confirm the Union
an precedent proclamations and legis-
tons. There can never be g united
,ople so long as cOnquerors in a CIVIL
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